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While you're there, read some of the other masterly-written fairy tales and poems.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Some Fairy Tale Fare
This November I've been neglectful of fairy tale fare, so I hope this essay, on the abstract and concrete in fairy tales, written a few months previously and just published on Enchanted Conversation, will somewhat make up for it.
While you're there, read some of the other masterly-written fairy tales and poems.
While you're there, read some of the other masterly-written fairy tales and poems.
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Brilliant essay. I tend to blame Freud--perhaps unfairly in part--for reducing literary analysis to talk of repressions and sexual politics, most of which is terribly foreign and uninteresting to me. It's overwhelmingly good to hear someone say: you know, a glass shoe is just a glass shoe, and as such it can mean endless things. Likewise for that poor maligned tower. :)
ReplyDeleteAgain, excellent. I'll be linking it over at the Hog's Head at some point, probably in my next Common Room post.
Thanks, Jenna. I think I could have and probably ought to lengthen the train of thought begun in that essay to make it clearer. Maybe some other day . . . c;
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